Rite Aid Warehouse in Rome to close; some workers can transfer to Liverpool

Rome, NY -- Some workers losing their jobs when the Rite Aid Distribution Warehouse in Rome closes will be able to get jobs at the Liverpool warehouse.

Ashley Flower, speaking for Rite Aid., said the warehouse in west Rome will close as of July 2011. The first of 388 people to be laid off will lose their jobs in January.

Flower said the Rome warehouse is being closed as part of a companywide consolidation occurring since Rite Aid acquired the Eckerd drug store chain two years ago. She said the Rome warehouse is old and in need of repair and the amount of money to fix it was cost prohibitive.

She also said the Liverpool warehouse is bigger and able to pick up more of the business from the closed Rome site.